Artist Biography

Common Decency is a Ska band. They've stated that their aim is to bring back Ska music to the current generation, after building a passion for the genre and realising that younger people were not familiar with this type of music. This band want to introduce a more unique style to the current music culture, which addresses issues in a more humorous and entertaining way.
Their target audience is between 14 and 30, a fairly young audience, which is ironic considering their old fashioned, scruffy style and look. This audience feels as if they can relate to this urban band who portray their humorous outlooks on issues that are important to them.

The band is made up of 3 members, Zack Newman, Kevin Baxter , Elliot Hunter, all 19 years old. Zack and Kevin met at 15 and had a naive dream of starting a band together. They lost contact for a few years before Zack, the current lead singer of Common Decency was asked to be the supporting act for Oasis at Birmingham. After this, Kevin -who was studying music at University at the time-, and Zack revisited their dream of starting a band and asked Elliot who was, at the time studying with Kevin at the same university, to join them. They created their first mixtape, which they named 'Midnight on the street', which included the song 'Right side'. This mixtape was sent to (record label name), where they were picked up and began to organise small gigs and shows.  They gradually started to gain recognition with a younger audience, with a few mentions on social media from bigger artists/bands including Lily Allen, Greenday and The Specials.

From this, a demand for a first album started to grow. They are currently very close to releasing their debut album, 'Lost Art', with the record label (record label name).

Zack and Kevin come from Leeds, Elliot from Manchester. The band have decided to stay in their home town of Leeds, as this is where they feel they can relate their music to their surroundings and the culture they grew up in. When they first started writing songs, the lyrics were based on a lot of the general views of their friends, families and neighbours, which makes the songs more personal.